Just like El Geneina, the alarm bells were sounded way in advance. But what did the international community do? They sat on their hands while the Masalit community was being slaughtered in their thousands
Now El Fashir is besieged...North Darfur is a tinderbox

#KeepEyesOnSudan

'The newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party backed by former President Jacob Zuma is drawing support from the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters. Ipsos placed the EFF at 11.5%, down from 19.6% in February, and MKP at 8.4%.'

I’m in the The Globe and Mail ringing alarm bells on unfolding RSF siege of El Fasher city - home to hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced people. Situation deteriorating rapidly and the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people hang in balance.

One of the world's poorest and most donor-dependent countries, #SouthSudan , increases military expenditure by 108% in 2022, a further 78% in 2023 - all the while claiming it has insufficient $ to run its first-ever elections later this year. news24.com/news24/africa/…

A UK government minister needs to double check if Rwanda and Congo are different countries before answering the question whether Congolese refugees fleeing fighting with Rwanda can also be deported to Rwanda.

The #BurkinaFaso government's decision to block Human Rights Watch after our findings of possible #CrimesAgainstHumanity + other independent media shows exactly why international assistance to investigate abuses is so critical.

All the warning lights now flashing - if the RSF move into El Fasher it will spell both a massacre and the near-irreversible fragmentation of #Sudan into 2 large pieces. Meanwhile, hope is pinned on a mtg called by ceasefire mediators (Jeddah) - but no date or confirmed attendees

From MSF today: 'We have responded to 3 mass casualty events at South Hospital in El Fasher over the past week and treated over 100 wounded patients. There is also a catastrophic malnutrition crisis in Zamzam camp that requires a massive scale-up in the humanitarian response.'

One of Darfur's biggest cities, El Fasher, is now a 'kill box', analysts say. The city is under a tightening siege by RSF forces, with its escape routes cut off. Fuel and water are running out. And the RSF has committed massacres in other Darfur cities.
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The deluge that flooded Dubai was made up to 40% more intense by climate change, scientists find trib.al/lO30ZX7

I do love these quotes from a report on journalists from Russia and Africa meeting in Moscow to 'Develop Information Strategy.'

'An expert from India... journalist Dwivedi Ratnesh noted that 'Russia is a model for India of how the Government supports the activities of national…

“Anatomy of a South African Genocide” (2011), examines the extermination of the Cape San people in South Africa by Dutch settlers and colonialists in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were almost completely annihilated as a result of massacres, land confiscation, massacre, forced…

When the RSF siege of Al-Geneina started, alarm bells were sounded to no avail and the final death toll of the RSF-led massacre was estimated at 10,000 - 15,000.

When the RSF siege of Madani began - again, no intervention and masses were tortured, killed, raped and robbed.

'We provided one‐time #cashtransfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya... We document large positive spillovers on non‐recipient households and firms & minimal price inflation'

The winning paper emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/gener…

The railway that will connect Angola, Zambia & DRC will transform the continent, thanks to US Partnership Global Infrastructure & Investment, President Biden’ global infrastructure initiative.

Richard R. Verma, Ambassador Tulinabo Mushingi & I were the 1st senior 🇺🇸 officials to board what will one day become the first trans-African railroad.

UN-appointed investigators have uncovered a new $13 billion oil-backed loan to #SouthSudan from an obscure company based out of Dubai in one of the world's largest oil-for-cash deals ever

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- with Augusta Saraiva and *free to read* via Bloomberg:

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“You can never know when the drones will bomb you.”
Combatants across Africa are increasingly using cheap imported drones in often indiscriminate attacks against civilians.
Great reporting by Geoffrey York and Zecharias Zelalem 👇
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Exclusive🧵:

Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.

The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (Refugees Platform in Egypt - منصة اللاجئين في مصر) have been investigating the…

Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals. MSF International calls for transparency after bill for trial of #TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharma, by sarahboseley theguardian.com/global-develop… via The Guardian #GlobalHealth

The human rights travesty facing #Uyghur -Canadian Huseyin Celil, unlawfully detained in China for 18 yrs, receives so little attention. Now this riveting podcast from Yusuf Zine & team for TVO.me has dropped: tvo.org/podcasts/extra…
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